Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A new tribute band has formed in New Zealand - Splintered In Her Head. Their first show will be on April 5th, opening for Permanence, a Joy Division tribute band. And later in the year, they plan to play 'Seventeen Seconds', 'Faith', and 'Pornography', in their entirety. More info here. (Thanks Michel)

Monday, February 10, 2014

XFM says 'Killing An Arab' is one of the 50 Best Debut Singles Of All Time:
"Robert Smith's debut single was released on the indie imprint Small
Wonder in December 1978, but reissued on the Fiction label the following
February. Radio programmers freaked at the A-side, which they took to
be somewhat racist... rather than the punky tribute to the
existentialist novel The Stranger, by Albert Camus that it actually was.
They favoured the impressive B-side, 10.15 Saturday Night instead." (Thanks @DarkkMokko)